Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-06
CREMATION IN FRANCE.
Detailed Description of the Process
Actor Paulus IiyOniZed.

PARIS (va Havre), Nov. s. New York
Herald Cable-Spccial to the BEE. The
weather is still cold and cloudy and the sue
cession Of storms has stripped the trees of all
their foliage. A political crisis is now averted
by the general desire on the part of everybody
to have Enquct and leave Wilson to its tender
mcrcies, so that this evenings session is de-
void of the piquant interest that the convers
of sensational scandal hoped would character
ize it.
Now that the police precautions have pre-
cluded the probability of any more Paris
thcatcrs serving as cremation temples, as III
the case of the late Opera Comique, a series
of experiments has just been concluded to
test the new crematorium of Pere La Chaise.
IL is claimed that corpsee can be reduced to
ashes in two hours. The committee reported
the results every quarter of an hour and the
exact heat. 1t is rather startling as follows,
an extract being made from the official re-
port: 2:O5 p. m.-Pate supporting the body
is inserted in the chamber and fired to mod
crate hert; the legs of the corpse spread out
to the extent of touching the sides of the
chamber; the furnace is charged and the
draught set on. 2:20 p. infect have
naturally replaced themselves on sole plate;
legs have bent up; flesh is in combustion
and the bones of the legs appear.
2 :35 p. m.-Legs are partly consumed: black
patches on knees, heel and trunk. 2:50 p. m.
Legs are completely red; upper parts of
body begin to redden and to be consumed.
3:05 p. m.--Abdominal cavity begins to be
reduced the ribs are burnt; black spots on
chest and head. 32O p. m.--Whole of body
is red saving a portion of the head. 3:45 p.
m.-Upper part of body has fallen in and
begins to whiten operation seems finished;
firing is continued to same degree up to p.
m to obtain more thorough reduction; after
4 O'Clock no more wood is put in furnace;
damper closed two-thrds to concentrate the
heat and at 30 p. m. the plate is drawn out
The body is completely consumed. Notraces
of brown or yellow spots. The ashes are
quite white and weigh kilometres 80 grains
The amount of wood consumed for incinera-
tion is 400 kilometres.
The great Partisan here, Paulus, has more
honor in his own city than elsewhere, for a
dispatch from Lyons makes it plain that he
| has not in that important center been treated
| with the respect that he doubtless looked for.
| He was engaged to appear twice at the Lyons
| Casino on Thursday for a benefit perform
| ance in connection with the press, but having
| sung a first time refused, under pretext of
| fatigue, to sing again Upon this a tremend-
| Gus row began. The public, far from bowling
| before the capriciousness of the great man,
| flung everything they could get hold
| of on the stage, smashed bottles,
| glasses, tables and gas fixtures. The per-
| formers and orchestra bolted only to find a
| mob Of 500 people engaged in smashing win
| dows and advertising transparencies. They
| were soon joined by the audience from the
Casino who had been driven out by the eX-
| tinguishing of the gas. The riot lasted until
| midnight when the police having been rein
forced by mouted guards, the street was
cleared Several arrests were made.
Paris is thronged with purchasers buying
winter toilets The alleged quarrel between
| Mrs. Potter and her manager, announced by
| the New York Times and cabled to the Euro
| pean Herald, is believed here to be an adver
| tising scheme, for Worth emphatcally de-
| clared this morning to Herald correspond
| ent that he not only completed all Mrs. Pot
| ter's costumes for 'Matre de Gorgh," but
also the Lady of Lyons" and that she is
well equipped for all the plays.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt leaves Monday
for Marsailes. Admiral II. N. Stimbel, O.
the United States navy, is stopping at Belle
vue. Among the passengers who sailed OF
the Borgoyne at Havre to-day was Mrs. Ad
miral Livingston, Mrs. and Mrs Zabriski
Miss Valesquez, Miss Simpson and Miss Colt
Mrs, Henry Ames, of st. Louis, Colonel w
B. Wooster and Mrs. Wooster, of Con- ecti
cut and Robert M. Hooper, ex-vice consu
general at Paris.
The Herald's European edition reprints tn
Morning News final editorial gasp under tn
| heading "Song of the Dying Song" Tn
text is as follows; '"The Morning News to
morrow enters upon new phase of its exist
ence, and in view of the form in which it vii
in future appear, on Sunday, we would be
speak for it "A continuation of the same goo
| will and patronage. We shall, therefore, no
say farewell but simply Au Revoir.' "